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Archive 12/2013

27.Dec.2013
Carsten Siegner (ANF) MorphOS: Spreadsheet editor Spreedy 0.1
"Spreedy" writte by Carsten Siegner is a spreadsheet editor and features more functions than the built-in version of Siegner's text editing software Scriba. Main focus is on the compatibility with programms like Excel and OpenOffice which also can open spreedy spreadsheets.

Download: Spreedy_0.1.lha ( MB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2013
wazup (Kommentar) Odyssey Web Browser: Source code will be disclosed
One and a half month after the corresponding bounty project was established, today the required amount of donations of 7500 US-Dollar for disclosing Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's web browser Odyssey under an open-source licence was achieved. Therefore it is possible to port one of the latest versions of the browser to AmigaOS 4 and AROS. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2013
Amiga Future (Webseite)

MorphOS: SATAII-driver ulsata2 1.1 / SMARTDoctor 1.0
Rupert Hausberger has released version 1.1 of his MorphOS driver ulsata2 for SATA-II-controllers based on the Promise-PCI-baords with the numbers SATAII150/300. A detailed list with the precise chipsets you can find under the title link. Additionally it is possible to turn on or off the hardware monitoring system with the help of SMARTDoctor.

Concerning MorphOS, up to two controllers incl. 64-Bit-, S.M.A.R.T.- and query.library support (HDConfig/Mounter) can be used for which MorphOS 1.x is sufficient.

Changes:

Added support for SMART_ENABLE/SMART_DISABLE/SMART_STATUS-commands. (HD_SMARTCMD)
Fixed temperature field in the "Informational Exceptions" page of the SCSI LOG_SENSE commmand
Fixed io_Error of HD_SMARTCMD from "not changed" to IOERR_NOCMD when used on APAPI-devices
Excluded SMART-functions from ul_io_priv.c to ul_io_smart.c
Added shell-tool "LoadDev" to load the driver on system-boot

(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2013
Jim Neray (Kommentar)

Game launcher: X-bEnCH 0.92 R2
X-bEnCH is a graphical user-interface with up to 272 colours (AGA; 128 on OCS/ECS-computers) which can replace the Workbench for starting WHDLoad-games (.slave, .exe) and which requires low hardware resources.

Changes in release 2 of version 0.92:

Guru/crash 80000003 with 68000/68010 fixed
Listing directory larger than 100 entries with Xpl0rer fixed

(snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Dec.2013
Amigaworld.net (Webseite) UAE: AmiKit 1.6.7
AmiKit is complete distribution for UAE-users and now was updated to version 1.6.7. The new version is automatically installed if the previous version is already available on harddrive and provides updates of OpenURL, playOGG, SimpleMail and WHDLoad. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite) Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 1.06
The Hollywood-based multimedia player V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) was updated to version 1.06 and is available for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and WarpOS as well as Windows: With "T" you can change between elapsed and remaining time. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2013
amigafuture.de (Webseite)

MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis Pack 3.4.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's "Chrysalis Pack" is a preconfigured collection of programms, games and emulators for MorphOS. Changes in version 3.4.1 which is available as CD-image (chrysalis.iso, 581 MB):

added: BattleSquadron Demo
added: Oricutron 1.1
added: Islands Mini-Golf
added: ZoneXplorer 1.2 with new module "Lyap"
added: Mimetypes for Audio/Video (->MPlayer)
added: Scriba is now part of quick launch bar
added: Script for installing the "Ultimate 68k"-package
added: SATA2-driver
added: MultiMeedio 1.0
added: JukeboxAdder 1.2
added: DeliTracker 2.34
updated: Odyssey (->1.22)
updated: Ask Me Up (->1.3.3)
updated: Scriba (->1.9.9)
updated: SnapIT (->1.2)
updated: FCEU (->1.4)
updated: IceDoctor (->1.5)
updated: IceFS (->2.10)
updated: Plugin Charset2.amiplug (->2.5)
updated: PowerSDL (->16.1)
updated: VAMP (->1.05)
updated: PCITool (->3.0)
Position of Ram Disk-pictogramm is saved now
Scriba-pictogramm modified
Correction of SnapIT-path in CRABUM
Correction of a path in script mossys:ambient/scripts/uaeexe.rexx
Grabber replaced by SnapIT in the quick launch bar
New MUI and Ambient default preferences, theme "PlanetBlue" by Jambalah

(cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2013 Web browser: New developer team for Timberwolf?
AmigaOS-developer Steven Solie explained in the official Hyperion forum that currently he is just finishing a cross compiler development under Linux. So later he can compile the Firefox-port Timberwolf for AmigaOS 4. As soon as it is done, he is going to release a new binary to "establish a baseline".

He also said: "Then we can add some 3rd party devs to the team and get moving again." (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum) Babylonian Twins: Amiga collector edition possible
Babylonian Twins is a Jump'n'Run game with puzzle elements which was developed in 1993/94 in Iraq. The project was shelved after the collapse of Commodore. But in 2008 a demo version was released as ADF and WHDLoad file (amiga-news.de reported). The next year the release for mobile phones was started.

Under the title link now it is possible to show your interest in a collector edition for the Amiga. A price range of 15 up to 30 US-Dollar is mentioned. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2013
Anachronia (ANF)

Action-Adventure: Enemy 2: Missing In Action
Enemy 2: Missing In Action is the second part of Enemy: Tempest Of Violence. Compared with the first part, the sequel has new levels and new graphics and continues the storyline of Tempest of Violence.

Enemy 2 runs on all Amigas with 1 MB virtual memory, features 30 new levels which can be also played in team-mode spielbar sind and is available in English and German. The game is played with the joystick just like in part one.

The team of Anachronia promises "many surprising turns" and wishes all players lot of fun with "Enemy 2: Missing In Action". (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2013
os4welt.de (Webseite) AmigaOS 4: Web-Browser Odyssey 1.16
Shortly after the release of MUI 4, the port of version 1.16 of Fabien Coeurjoly's web browser Odyssey is available. Odyssey 1.16 is not the latest version and already two years old but so far for AmigaOS only version 1.9 was available.

The port for AmigaOS 4 does not feature support of HTML5 video and audio. Besides, there are not a plugin-interface or spell check. Currently the archive still is in the upload queue but soon will be available on the main site of the file archive.

Hint of amiga-news.de: For the release of the sources of the latest version of Odyssey currently money is collected. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2013
Amigaworld.net (Forum) Email-Client: YAM 2.9 for all Amiga systems
The YAM-Open-Source-team has released version 2.9 of the MUI-based mail programm which, additional to bug fixes, provides important basics for the future suppport of IMAP. The changes are listed under the title link.

Yet Another Mailer can be downloaded for AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS/x86, AROS/x64 and AROS/PPC. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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